View full sizeAP PhotoJerry Sands will get a second chance with the Los Angeles Dodgers this season.

LOS ANGELES - Former Great Lakes Loons star Jerry Sands will get a second chance this season with the Los Angeles Dodgers after the team announced that Sands is one of three minor leaguers getting a September promotion.

Sands, pitcher John Ely and catcher Tim Federowicz will join the Major League team.

Sands was with the team earlier this season, but hit just .200 with two homers and 17 RBIs in 41 games before being sent back to Albuquerque.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly is expected to play Sands in a variety of positions, including outfield where he will take at-bats away from Tony Gwynn Jr.

This season, Sands hit .278 in Triple A with 21 doubles, three triples and 29 homers.

Sands spent part of the 2009 and 2010 seasons with the Loons, hitting .333 with 18 homers in 243 at-bats in 2010.

mlb.com: "I want to see Jerry play more, Jerry's going to play quite a bit," Mattingly said. "I think we have to give him a [chance]... see if he makes adjustments, [which will] help us make decisions at the end of the year."